U.S. Population with Arab Ancestry, Census 2000

	Arab ancestry alone		Arab ancestry alone or in combination with another ancestry
National origin	Number	Percent of U.S. population	Number	Percent of U.S. population
Total	850,027¹	0.30%	1,189,731²	0.42%
Lebanese	244,525	0.09	440,279	0.16
Egyptian	123,489	0.04	142,832	0.05
Syrian	75,517	0.03	142,897	0.05
Palestinian	61,691	0.02	72,112	0.03
Jordanian	36,104	0.01	39,734	0.01
Moroccan	30,352	0.01	38,923	0.01
Iraqi	29,429	0.01	37,714	0.01
“Arab” or “Arabic”	167,166	0.06	205,822	0.07
Other Arab	81,754³	0.03	82,337⁴	0.03

1. Includes people who reported Arab ancestry only, regardless of whether they reported one or two Arab ancestries.

2. Includes people who reported one or two Arab ancestries and people who reported both an Arab and non-Arab ancestry.

3. Includes 68,614 people who reported one Arab ancestry not listed above and 13,140 people who reported two Arab ancestries, excluding the ancestries listed above.

4. Represents the number of people who reported one or two Arab ancestries, excluding the ancestries listed above.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Census 2000 special tabulation.

Selected Characteristics of the U.S. Arab Population, 2000

Population/Demographics

Ancestry of U.S. Population by Rank